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Mandi vs Mandrell

American parents have registered 10,025 Mandis since 1880, against 255 Mandrells. Mandi is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mandi against Mandrell, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mandi Mandrell

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mandi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Mandi had 10 and Mandrell had 5.

Side by side

  Mandi Mandrell
Total US births 10,025255
Most in one year 69720
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 9,600240
Median age today 4343
Peak year 19771980
Best rank 334th girls2,444th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 19571973
Girls / boys 10,025 / 00 / 255

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mandi and Mandrell.